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Is Jewish a religion or a race if religion can a Jew be atheist and still Jew or just Judaism is the religion?
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It's a little of both. The term "Jewish" can refer to either ethnicity or religious belief. There are certainly people who consider themselves to be Jewish in terms of ethnicity, but either agnostic or atheist, and also people who consider themselves to be both Jewish (by descent) and Christian (by religious preference).
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Judaism refers to the religion of the early Christians?
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Is Nick Clegg Jewish?
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